FOLTPH.Ems. TEALPOrHTLA, 679 



except on terminal area ; an indistinct double waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform obscurely outlined in black, the former rather 

 8-shaped, oblique, and extending below the cell ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line double, the inner line strong, black, minutely waved, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 3, then inwardly 

 oblique ; a waved whitish subterminal line with diffused black patch 

 on its inner edge at costa, black spot between it and postmedial line 

 at vein 5 and smaller spots at veins 2 and 1 ; some dark points on 

 termen ; cilia dark brown. Hiiid wing pale yellow, the terminal 

 half fuscous brown. 



Ilab, Q,UEENSLA]srD, Brisbane, ia Goli. Turner. E.vp, 38 millim. 



Genus THALFOPHILA, 



Type. 



Thalpcr/jhila, Hubn. Vera. p. 208 (1827) ....,.„ r,ia/ura. 



Ceriffo, 8ieph. IlL Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 106 (1829) matitra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint broadly fringed 

 with hair in front and reaching about to middle of frons, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round ; antenna of male serrate and fascicidate; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothoras with spreading crest, the 

 metathorax with divided crest ; tibise broadly fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with lateral tufts of hair and some rough hair at base, but without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with broad terminal brown band matura. 



B. Hind wing with flue terminal brown line iitalha.. 



3577. Thalpophila matura, 



Fhalcsna matwn, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii, p. 414 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Leu pal, 



p. 169, 

 Kociua texta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 108. ff. 5, 6 (1787). 

 A^ochia cytkerea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. .57 (1794) ; Godart, Lep. Fr. v 



p. 147, pi. 57. f. 4. 

 Noctioa connexa, Hiibn. Eur, Sehmett., Noct. ff. 109, 547 (1802). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish and fuscous ; 

 palpi yellowish white at base ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomsii 

 yellowish white tinged with brown, the anal tuft mixed with black ; 

 dark brown lateral stripes. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 

 greyish ; the base of inner margin grey : subbasal line indistinctly 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, below which there is 

 a blackish mark beyond it and another above inner margin before 

 the antemedial line which is double filled in with whitish, the inner 

 line indistinct, waved, angled outwards above inner margin ; clavi- 

 form elongate, defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform with ])ale anniili defined by black, the former round ; an 

 indistinct diffused brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower 



